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Andrew Gillett

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Game developer, computer science & programming tutor, person defined by comma-separated values. Partial gameography: Dog's Life, RCT3, Thrillville, LostWinds2, Kinectimals, Kinect Disneyland Adventures, Elite Dangerous Books: Code the Classics Vols 1, 2

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This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting Iโ€™ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

04.08.2025 21:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4100    ๐Ÿ” 3021    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 149    ๐Ÿ“Œ 384
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These people can only conceive of win-lose situations, and so they forgo win-win arrangements in favor of lose-lose arrangements

06.08.2025 00:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4525    ๐Ÿ” 537    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 74    ๐Ÿ“Œ 33

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

06.08.2025 00:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3465    ๐Ÿ” 836    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 53    ๐Ÿ“Œ 73

Tiny Teams 2025 starts... TOMORROW!!!

Who's ready to fatten up their wishlists and feed their indie game soul?

#gaming #indiegame #gamedev

06.08.2025 09:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The thing I find hard about Vegas 22 is when I try to drag a video from the media area to the timeline and it ends up selecting a subset of the video and only adding the subset to the timeline

06.08.2025 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Reality Drift demo is out now!

store.steampowered.com/app/3522340/...

#games #indiegames

05.08.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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ใ€Žใ‚ขใ‚ฆใƒˆใƒฉใƒณใ€ใจใ€ŽSlay the Spireใ€ใซใ‚คใƒณใ‚นใƒ‘ใ‚คใ‚ขใ•ใ‚ŒใŸๆ–ฐๆ„Ÿ่ฆšใƒญใƒผใ‚ฐใƒฉใ‚คใ‚ฏใƒปใƒฌใƒผใ‚นใ‚ฒใƒผใƒ ใ€ŽReality Driftใ€ใฎใ€Œไฝ“้จ“็‰ˆใ€ใŒ้…ไฟก้–‹ๅง‹ใ€ใ€Œๆ—ฅๆœฌ่ชžใ€ใซๅฏพๅฟœใ€‚ใƒ‰ใƒฉใ‚คใƒ“ใƒณใ‚ฐใƒ†ใ‚ฏใƒ‹ใƒƒใ‚ฏใ ใ‘ใงใชใใ‚นใƒ†ใƒผใ‚ฟใ‚นใฎใ‚ทใƒŠใ‚ธใƒผใฎ้ธๆŠžใฎๆฑบๆ–ญใ‚‚ๆฑ‚ใ‚ใ‚‰ใ‚Œใ‚‹ใƒฌใƒผใ‚ทใƒณใ‚ฐใ‚ฒใƒผใƒ 
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2508052h

05.08.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I am now going to go for a walk and talk to some crows

05.08.2025 12:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Reality Drift demo is out now!

store.steampowered.com/app/3522340/...

#games #indiegames

05.08.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
04.08.2025 22:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of sprite asset editor in Unity Text Mesh Pro

Screenshot of sprite asset editor in Unity Text Mesh Pro

Love this panel in Text Mesh Pro where it looks like none of the values are editable (they are) and the globals items at the bottom all have different names from the values they edit

04.08.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I go to bed at 1:30am or 2am, and often lie in bed for over an hour without being able to sleep. The idea of falling asleep "well after midnight" sounds unfathomably early to me. Who's to say waking up at 6:30am is 'normal' anyway? (The sun?)

04.08.2025 11:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Canโ€™t Fall Asleep? It Might Be Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome Itโ€™s after midnight and youโ€™ve been in bed for hours. Learn more about delayed sleep phase syndrome that could be keeping you up at night.

This is an insane sentence to me:

"rather than falling asleep at 10pm and waking at 6:30am, a person with delayed sleep phase syndrome will fall asleep well after midnight and have trouble getting up in time."

my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...

04.08.2025 11:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A Scrabble game running within an MS-DOS Prompt window, with words such as BASTARDS, WANKERS and KNOB on the board

A Scrabble game running within an MS-DOS Prompt window, with words such as BASTARDS, WANKERS and KNOB on the board

Found this screenshot of the Scrabble game I made for my BTEC Computer Studies final project

04.08.2025 11:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nick Timothy has always been an unpleasant authoritarian racist but the direct endorsement of racist mob violence (and attacking the police for preventing it) is genuinely a new low.

04.08.2025 06:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 581    ๐Ÿ” 196    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Happy King of the Hill is Back Day to those who celebrate

04.08.2025 07:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Does the left need their own Sauron the Deceiver to craft rings of power as gifts for all free folk โ€“ only to, in secret, craft a Master Ring to bind them to his will?

04.08.2025 00:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 743    ๐Ÿ” 116    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

This trailer is gold right from the get go. Too much of it seems a bit... fake? But the trailer is excellent.

03.08.2025 13:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A racing game showing giant cats, with Japanese UI text

A racing game showing giant cats, with Japanese UI text

A fish man king talking in Ukrainian

A fish man king talking in Ukrainian

A car driving through a land of giant mushrooms, with roguelike deckbuilding cards on screen, the text is in Spanish

A car driving through a land of giant mushrooms, with roguelike deckbuilding cards on screen, the text is in Spanish

A strange Mario-like character with mushrooms growing on his clothes says something in Chinese

A strange Mario-like character with mushrooms growing on his clothes says something in Chinese

The Reality Drift demo is coming very soon, and will be in English, Ukrainian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, French and Brazilian Portuguese!

03.08.2025 12:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If someone approaches you with "I mistakenly reported you, you're gonna get banned if you don't do something!" then it's a scam. Every time. There is no alternative here. It's 100%, certainly, surely, with no shred of doubt A SCAM. Don't trust anyone writing this to you! No one!

03.08.2025 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 124    ๐Ÿ” 102    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
A group of 8 colorful ceramic frogs sit in a circle, surrounding and facing a ceramic lily pad dish with 2 tiny frogs sitting in it.

A group of 8 colorful ceramic frogs sit in a circle, surrounding and facing a ceramic lily pad dish with 2 tiny frogs sitting in it.

Post image 2 ceramic frogs with hats. One is a witch hat, the other is a top hat.

2 ceramic frogs with hats. One is a witch hat, the other is a top hat.

Hereโ€™s an update to my completed frog collection. Still more to come!
#frogust #ceramics

31.07.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 118    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The problem with classic movies is that too few of them frame the actors as tiny figures dwarfed by a Mac OS screensaver.

01.08.2025 23:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 428    ๐Ÿ” 63    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Ghislaine Maxwell

02.08.2025 00:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1060    ๐Ÿ” 169    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
an image showing three sketches of a man with a fish for a head, the patreon logo, and the URL https://www.patreon.com/emilylorange

an image showing three sketches of a man with a fish for a head, the patreon logo, and the URL https://www.patreon.com/emilylorange

Hey it's August! Today on my $3 Patreon I added a peek into what I've been working on for Reality Drift, including some of the final art and the discarded ideas that got us there.

www.patreon.com/c/emilylorange

01.08.2025 21:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A stack of empty CD cases

A stack of empty CD cases

Anyone want a load of empty CD cases?

I do still have some blank CDs. I last burned one about two years ago, because my car still has a CD player.

02.08.2025 00:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Two big box PC games - Planescape Torment and Thief 2, one slightly smaller box game (Heroes of Might and Magic 4) plus ZX Spectrum game The Adrian Mole Secret Diary Kit

Two big box PC games - Planescape Torment and Thief 2, one slightly smaller box game (Heroes of Might and Magic 4) plus ZX Spectrum game The Adrian Mole Secret Diary Kit

I don't have space to keep these any more, anyone want them?

01.08.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weird stuff you can do in the 1980s Middle Earth text adventures arganoid.dreamwidth.org/24920.html

01.08.2025 20:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anyone seeing this issue in #Unity where you type in a new value (e.g. UI rect width) and it then forgets that you typed in the last digit?

e.g. I type 123, come out of the prefab, it's saved it as 12, so I have to go back and do it again

I've seen this enough times that it's clearly an actual bug

01.08.2025 19:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reality Drift on Steam Reality Drift is a roguelike racing game where your choices matter. Race through a series of strange worlds, choose upgrades for your car and decide which track will be next - your decisions are just ...

store.steampowered.com/app/3078120

01.08.2025 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reality Drift will be part of @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social, running from 7th-14th August!

We'll be releasing our first public demo on Steam! Play the game that has so many people asking "why are there giant cats?"

#tinyteams #tinyteams2025

01.08.2025 16:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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